Continuing Medical Education

Continuing Medical Education

City of Hope has a long-standing commitment to continuing medical education (CME), sharing advances in cancer research and treatment with the health-care community through CME courses such as conferences, symposia and other on and off campus CME opportunities for medical professionals.

CME events are vital for physicians seeking board certification and for maintenance of certification, or MOC, ensuring that they are kept up to date on the latest treatment modalities and delivering the highest standard of patient care.

One of the Top ACCME-accredited CME Program Providers

City of Hope’s CME program has been fully accredited since 1999 through the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide AMA PRA Category 1 CreditTM. In 2005, our CME Program received its first Accreditation with Commendation. This designation placed our CME Program in the top 1 to 2 percent of CME program providers in the nation. In 2011, the ACCME awarded our CME Program its second consecutive Accreditation with Commendation designation citing compliance in all 22 Criteria and Accreditation Policies and characterizing our CME Program as having "...demonstrated an engagement with your environment in support of physician learning and change that is part of a system of quality improvement."

A Founding Member of NCCN

City of Hope is a founding member of the NCCN (National Comprehensive Cancer Network), a not-for-profit alliance of 21 of the nation’s leading cancer centers. The NCCN develops clinical practice guidelines for use by patients, physicians and other health care decision-makers. The NCCN Drugs and Biologics Compendium is a regularly-updated, comprehensive set of guidelines which recommends the most appropriate diagnostic tests, therapy and follow-up for cancer patients based on clinical evidence as well as the consensus of leading academic cancer centers.

City of Hope’s expert doctors contribute to the NCCN Compendium on an ongoing basis, and CME courses offered by City of Hope are consistently informed by NCCN guidelines.

Online CME

City of Hope's Department of Continuing Medical Education offers accredited e-Learning courses/programs in addition to conferences and symposiums.

Contact the Continuing Medical Education Department if you have questions regarding this or any of the information provided at cme@coh.org or 626-256-4673 ext 65622.

Grand Rounds

The Grand Rounds program offered at City of Hope is available to physicians and hospitals in the surrounding areas. Members of the medical staff at City of Hope are available to speak to medical groups, hospital medical staffs and community hospital health-care professionals on a variety of topics related to cancer and other life-threatening diseases. Our speakers can provide expert presentations in various settings, including hospital grand rounds, luncheon and dinner lectures, and CME conferences and symposia. New speakers and topics are added regularly, and we can create custom presentations to meet the specific needs of your organization.

In addition to those shown here, speakers on a variety of other topics are available. Please contact us for more information.

City of Hope Accreditation History

We at the City of Hope have had an active Continuing Medical Education program since the 1950's when the school of Postgraduate Medicine first sponsored extramural conferences. Our first accreditation occurred under the aegis of the California Medical Association in 1978. We continued this statewide accreditation until our expanding national course offerings and reputation evolved into an application for national accreditation in 1997. In July 1999, a two-year provisional accreditation status was awarded through ACCME (Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education).

In February 2005, our CME Program underwent the ACCME’s rigorous quadrennial reaccreditation review and survey. We were advised by ACCME on July 15, 2005 that we had been Reaccredited with Commendation with Exemplary Compliance demonstrated in six Essential Elements. This designation placed our CME Program in the top one to two percent of CME program providers in the nation. We were also listed as a “best practices” resource on the ACCME website under their Exemplary Compliance List.

On February 24, 2011, our City of Hope CME Program once again underwent ACCME re-accreditation review. On July 22, 2011, the ACCME apprised us of their decision to award our program its second consecutive Accreditation with Commendation citing compliance in all 22 Criteria and Accreditation Policies and characterizing our CME Program as having "...demonstrated an engagement with your environment in support of physician learning and change that is part of a system of quality improvement."

Continuing Medical Education Events Calendar

City of Hope's CME calendar is easy to navigate - just move your cursor over or click a date or event description. You can also add events to your personal calendar, e-mail event information to yourself or others, set up e-mail and cell phone text message reminders on events and other event actions. Additionally, you can subscribe to the CME calendar in different ways including Weekly e-mails, RSS and Atom Feeds.

You also have the opportunity of adding events from the CME Calendar directly to your personal calendar as well as send reminders to yourself. (See Event Actions below calendar.)

Continuing Medical Education

Continuing Medical Education

City of Hope has a long-standing commitment to continuing medical education (CME), sharing advances in cancer research and treatment with the health-care community through CME courses such as conferences, symposia and other on and off campus CME opportunities for medical professionals.

CME events are vital for physicians seeking board certification and for maintenance of certification, or MOC, ensuring that they are kept up to date on the latest treatment modalities and delivering the highest standard of patient care.

One of the Top ACCME-accredited CME Program Providers

City of Hope’s CME program has been fully accredited since 1999 through the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide AMA PRA Category 1 CreditTM. In 2005, our CME Program received its first Accreditation with Commendation. This designation placed our CME Program in the top 1 to 2 percent of CME program providers in the nation. In 2011, the ACCME awarded our CME Program its second consecutive Accreditation with Commendation designation citing compliance in all 22 Criteria and Accreditation Policies and characterizing our CME Program as having "...demonstrated an engagement with your environment in support of physician learning and change that is part of a system of quality improvement."

A Founding Member of NCCN

City of Hope is a founding member of the NCCN (National Comprehensive Cancer Network), a not-for-profit alliance of 21 of the nation’s leading cancer centers. The NCCN develops clinical practice guidelines for use by patients, physicians and other health care decision-makers. The NCCN Drugs and Biologics Compendium is a regularly-updated, comprehensive set of guidelines which recommends the most appropriate diagnostic tests, therapy and follow-up for cancer patients based on clinical evidence as well as the consensus of leading academic cancer centers.

City of Hope’s expert doctors contribute to the NCCN Compendium on an ongoing basis, and CME courses offered by City of Hope are consistently informed by NCCN guidelines.

Online CME

Online CME

City of Hope's Department of Continuing Medical Education offers accredited e-Learning courses/programs in addition to conferences and symposiums.

Contact the Continuing Medical Education Department if you have questions regarding this or any of the information provided at cme@coh.org or 626-256-4673 ext 65622.

Grand Rounds

Grand Rounds

The Grand Rounds program offered at City of Hope is available to physicians and hospitals in the surrounding areas. Members of the medical staff at City of Hope are available to speak to medical groups, hospital medical staffs and community hospital health-care professionals on a variety of topics related to cancer and other life-threatening diseases. Our speakers can provide expert presentations in various settings, including hospital grand rounds, luncheon and dinner lectures, and CME conferences and symposia. New speakers and topics are added regularly, and we can create custom presentations to meet the specific needs of your organization.

In addition to those shown here, speakers on a variety of other topics are available. Please contact us for more information.

Accreditation History

City of Hope Accreditation History

We at the City of Hope have had an active Continuing Medical Education program since the 1950's when the school of Postgraduate Medicine first sponsored extramural conferences. Our first accreditation occurred under the aegis of the California Medical Association in 1978. We continued this statewide accreditation until our expanding national course offerings and reputation evolved into an application for national accreditation in 1997. In July 1999, a two-year provisional accreditation status was awarded through ACCME (Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education).

In February 2005, our CME Program underwent the ACCME’s rigorous quadrennial reaccreditation review and survey. We were advised by ACCME on July 15, 2005 that we had been Reaccredited with Commendation with Exemplary Compliance demonstrated in six Essential Elements. This designation placed our CME Program in the top one to two percent of CME program providers in the nation. We were also listed as a “best practices” resource on the ACCME website under their Exemplary Compliance List.

On February 24, 2011, our City of Hope CME Program once again underwent ACCME re-accreditation review. On July 22, 2011, the ACCME apprised us of their decision to award our program its second consecutive Accreditation with Commendation citing compliance in all 22 Criteria and Accreditation Policies and characterizing our CME Program as having "...demonstrated an engagement with your environment in support of physician learning and change that is part of a system of quality improvement."

CME Calendar

Continuing Medical Education Events Calendar

City of Hope's CME calendar is easy to navigate - just move your cursor over or click a date or event description. You can also add events to your personal calendar, e-mail event information to yourself or others, set up e-mail and cell phone text message reminders on events and other event actions. Additionally, you can subscribe to the CME calendar in different ways including Weekly e-mails, RSS and Atom Feeds.

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